ULearn Conference 08 Cherise Stone - Glendowie College
Arrived Tues pm and checked in with Shalendra
Caught up with Southern Cross mates for a drink in the Lobby Bar
Wednesday am Key note Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach
(American = annoying to listen to)
Not clear about the message.
Collaborative learning – am interested in this. Am thinking of ways to use this in our research topics, they already collaborate but I need to set it up better and do it all on line.
Blog – a global voice = cool but not new, will be trying to get in to this with my students as a way to discuss/articlulate their thoughts on plays. (Develop critical awareness, and not just quote the teacher.)
Ideas about “Sharing appropriately” (thought about introducing my own children to this concept, also started my own Facbook as a way of using the social software – am very shy to talk on the web the global aspect intimidates me, don’t want to come across badly.
Teaching kids to hook up with experts or someone who knows; the EG was “Scratch” and Fanfiction. Bruce McIntyre
Business and education = nothing new about how we are preparing people for a life of disempowered functionality and something about everyone taking alcohol and drugs to get over the boredom that is work!! Nice man, terrible speaker, everyone keen to get to morning tea. Teachers - limiting human potential. Gotta get a new model, blahblah.
1. Julia Aitkin Learning to Lead – enjoyed her talk about creating a new model of leadership, empowerment and transparent leadership. Thought I might like to be specialist classroom teacher. Theirs a postgrad or masters in it at Auckland apparently. The term Heterachy coined. Don’t know how this talk will impact my teaching or students. Except that the talk was about teachers learning and change which is relevant to our school and the ed sector as a whole.
2. Jocelyn Mackay Developing and fostering social presence in online Learning Environments. Very practical, useful session helping teach me how to respond to students when they do eventually talk to me on the internet. Made the link between Social indicators (of student engagement) in face to face situations (f2f – my speciality) and online. Emotocons, !!, ? etc. writing their name in your reply, disclosing appropriate personal info etc. Developing stickiness. Thursday Keynote Steven Carden – attractive, clever, interesting speaker which is always good. Lots of power point, you tube stuff we’ve already seen about the exponential growth of computer capacity and the unpredictable future for our students. Anecdotes about a positive teacher comment that inspired him and a negative (throw away) comment that made him prove us wrong. Heard it before somewhere, sadly finished with a challenge to us to be positively inspiring (beware the throw away comments) = lame. Talked about First Foundation and his book NZ Unleashed. Business mentoring and supporting students to tertiary study – sounds good. Will impact my students by reminding me to watch what I say and hopefully make them socially conscious, independent, flexible thinkers.
3. Showcase to the future: sad and uninspiring.
a) Google apps - useful for storing video and making lessons.
b) Tech Wizards – sounds good, we should have them, thought about my own children and how they are doing much with computers at school so no way are they up to being Wizards.
c) Red – some mac stuff I didn’t get.
d) Ics.christscollege.school.nz – a maths teacher recording lessons on a website that students could subscribe to. Usual comments about students not having to come to class if they knew the stuff. No comments on how the teacher could tell if they knew the stuff. Nothing about collaborative learning which we are repeatedly told is the WAY.
e) www.superclubplus.com.au – cool site the ozzy’s are using, big in England, can e portfolio which am very interested in, thought my kids would love it. It monitored as apart from moderated. Crazy teacher online 24/7 marking, chatting, setting assignments and catching up with students on the other side of the world.
f) Iweb and e portfolios – very quick and Mac based so didn’t get it BUT will be working a prototype of an e-drama portfolio when I get back. With all my spare time. Will be my 1 beginning and ending project as I have so many part-time dabbles. Will be running in year 9 drama 2009.
4. Wagged Breakout 4 to do my marking and write this.
5. Strategies for Using Mobile Phones in Classroom
www.tonitwiss.com.mobile
Blogg on the use of mobiles in the classroom. Really good session. Had no idea we could do so much.
Friday am 6. Learning and Leading with the Habits of Mind: a practical work shop – Karen Boyes. Not practical but an interesting talk about the Habits. Very interesting and will use some methods. Have a card of habits, will laminate and hand out to kids when they demonstrate the habit. Will wait when questioning (7 Sec.s). She went through the 16 habits of mind. Most interesting “creativity” the most important to prepare for the future. She had slides that were good wall charts on each one.
So now what: teach there are 16, they come from a study “What makes successful people successful”, model the behaviour and acknowledge the ones your doing. Good for my kids at home. Excellence is not an act but a habit.
TED Workshop and web site – worth it.
7. trade hall – wagged to do marking and didn’t get it finished
8. Final Thing fairly interesting about what they are doing in primary, early childhood and high school. Thoughts: we need more computers and training and kids should be way more online with us and they are not. I’m getting a clearer idea of how to do collaborative learning in my research units. Need time to set up my wiki. I was a bit overwhelmed by now and could barely stand the wrap up and didn’t get a prize.
Note:
Saved:
A) Tony Ryan for school PD (someone said we were going to have him.
B) Karen Boyes from spectrum education cos she’s coming to teach us Habits of Mind next year. We had a great chat over wine at the drinks thing Tuesday. Decided to go.
Met up with Tony Zaloum from Orewa whom I taught with at Takapuna. Thought I liked the sound of his job. Project director ICTPD and Specialist classroom teacher. He presented The new curriculum and Orewa College and Learning: the future. Didn’t go.
Mapped out fantasy career plan at Glendowie for self when am settled with drama department (5 yr) etc.
Cynthia Sundaram - Sacred Heart College Reflection on ULearn08
Overall it was interesting and mostly engaging. One of the highlights for me was the keynote speaker, Steven Carden. He was highly inspirational and makes teaching worthwhile and in my opinion, he should have opened the conference.
The first workshop I attended was “Getting tricky with wikis” and this was really good. It was so good, that I was tempted to not turn up to the others and just stay in the conference centre and play with the new knowledge, and drink the free yummy cappuccinos. The other workshops were ok, but I did not appreciate being late for the workshops, when the travelling distance and travelling time between venues, were beyond my control.
The food was fantastic and the Conference dinner was highly entertaining, there were many potential, teachers’ gone wild video clips for youtube.
Anne Rolinson - Aorere College
I was fortunate to attend ULEARN 2008 with Chris Lynch (Social Sciences) and enjoy a range of speaker and Christchurch!
1. I was disappointed in the keynote speakers, who I felt had not ‘moved on’ as far as NZ practitioners had since last ULEARN.
- in short we were reminded that:
we can now form groups as never before
students need help to manage these people networks safely and ethically
the shift from classroom to community has happened
communities of practice provide educators with possibilities for co-creative content – we share what we do ie cooperate, collaborate, act collectively
Speakers from private enterprise, in particular, showed that public speaking is not a natural skill.
Real classroom teachers were superior in speaking ability and practical (of course) ideas.
2. The presentation by Orewa College was honest, detailed and practical, and will be used to devise our own TOD.
Their generosity in sharing practice and power point is acknowledged.
-the ability to include current ideas into ‘New” Curriculum development eg Maanaki Orewa
-the centrality of key competencies over content
-the implementation of HOT across school and curriculum areas and how this might be managed
-change may take 4 years
3. “Untraining the Parrot” – English at Whangaparoa College
-the development of a thinking vocabulary is important – VISUWORDS
4. Tony Ryan “Transformational Teaching” and “Thinking about Thinking”
-always practical and inspirational, although he repetition of material from previous sessions is a worry – each should sound as though it is the first time
Tony has presented/fresh (even though we know he has presented previously in all probability)
-key values for education and practical applications
-roles of transformational teacher
-some perspectives on innovation
-intellectually rigorous digital assessment tasks
-professional coaching
5. -how we think
-big 5 for thinking
-thinking rubric
-focus questions and how to develop them
-thinkers keys
-levels of HOT
6. Joan Dalton
- relationships and education –connectivity and collectivity
-what smart teachers are doing to prepare students for the future – we need to go about the curriculum in a different way
-teachers need to understand about flow, how people learn, uncertainty and adaptiveness
-learning needs to be more authentic – it is intergenerational and intercultural
-students can self instruct –they need to be designers, connectors and collaborators, failures, language masters, licensed eg to think differently, believers, wise
7. Lincoln High School
Relationships are the key to learning
Many of the messages and resources will form the basis of initiatives and PD in 2009 – in many cases rejuvenating ideas eg HOT.
Cherise Stone - Glendowie College
Arrived Tues pm and checked in with Shalendra
Caught up with Southern Cross mates for a drink in the Lobby Bar
Wednesday am
Key note
Will Richardson and Sheryl Nussbuam-Beach
(American = annoying to listen to)
Not clear about the message.
Collaborative learning – am interested in this. Am thinking of ways to use this in our research topics, they already collaborate but I need to set it up better and do it all on line.
Blog – a global voice = cool but not new, will be trying to get in to this with my students as a way to discuss/articlulate their thoughts on plays. (Develop critical awareness, and not just quote the teacher.)
Ideas about “Sharing appropriately” (thought about introducing my own children to this concept, also started my own Facbook as a way of using the social software – am very shy to talk on the web the global aspect intimidates me, don’t want to come across badly.
Teaching kids to hook up with experts or someone who knows; the EG was “Scratch” and Fanfiction.
Bruce McIntyre
Business and education = nothing new about how we are preparing people for a life of disempowered functionality and something about everyone taking alcohol and drugs to get over the boredom that is work!! Nice man, terrible speaker, everyone keen to get to morning tea. Teachers - limiting human potential. Gotta get a new model, blahblah.
1. Julia Aitkin Learning to Lead – enjoyed her talk about creating a new model of leadership, empowerment and transparent leadership. Thought I might like to be specialist classroom teacher. Theirs a postgrad or masters in it at Auckland apparently. The term Heterachy coined. Don’t know how this talk will impact my teaching or students. Except that the talk was about teachers learning and change which is relevant to our school and the ed sector as a whole.
2. Jocelyn Mackay Developing and fostering social presence in online Learning Environments. Very practical, useful session helping teach me how to respond to students when they do eventually talk to me on the internet. Made the link between Social indicators (of student engagement) in face to face situations (f2f – my speciality) and online. Emotocons, !!, ? etc. writing their name in your reply, disclosing appropriate personal info etc. Developing stickiness.
Thursday
Keynote
Steven Carden – attractive, clever, interesting speaker which is always good. Lots of power point, you tube stuff we’ve already seen about the exponential growth of computer capacity and the unpredictable future for our students. Anecdotes about a positive teacher comment that inspired him and a negative (throw away) comment that made him prove us wrong. Heard it before somewhere, sadly finished with a challenge to us to be positively inspiring (beware the throw away comments) = lame. Talked about First Foundation and his book NZ Unleashed. Business mentoring and supporting students to tertiary study – sounds good. Will impact my students by reminding me to watch what I say and hopefully make them socially conscious, independent, flexible thinkers.
3. Showcase to the future: sad and uninspiring.
a) Google apps - useful for storing video and making lessons.
b) Tech Wizards – sounds good, we should have them, thought about my own children and how they are doing much with computers at school so no way are they up to being Wizards.
c) Red – some mac stuff I didn’t get.
d) Ics.christscollege.school.nz – a maths teacher recording lessons on a website that students could subscribe to. Usual comments about students not having to come to class if they knew the stuff. No comments on how the teacher could tell if they knew the stuff. Nothing about collaborative learning which we are repeatedly told is the WAY.
e) www.superclubplus.com.au – cool site the ozzy’s are using, big in England, can e portfolio which am very interested in, thought my kids would love it. It monitored as apart from moderated. Crazy teacher online 24/7 marking, chatting, setting assignments and catching up with students on the other side of the world.
f) Iweb and e portfolios – very quick and Mac based so didn’t get it BUT will be working a prototype of an e-drama portfolio when I get back. With all my spare time. Will be my 1 beginning and ending project as I have so many part-time dabbles. Will be running in year 9 drama 2009.
4. Wagged Breakout 4 to do my marking and write this.
5. Strategies for Using Mobile Phones in Classroom
www.tonitwiss.com.mobile
Blogg on the use of mobiles in the classroom. Really good session. Had no idea we could do so much.
Friday am
6. Learning and Leading with the Habits of Mind: a practical work shop – Karen Boyes. Not practical but an interesting talk about the Habits. Very interesting and will use some methods. Have a card of habits, will laminate and hand out to kids when they demonstrate the habit. Will wait when questioning (7 Sec.s). She went through the 16 habits of mind. Most interesting “creativity” the most important to prepare for the future. She had slides that were good wall charts on each one.
So now what: teach there are 16, they come from a study “What makes successful people successful”, model the behaviour and acknowledge the ones your doing. Good for my kids at home. Excellence is not an act but a habit.
TED Workshop and web site – worth it.
7. trade hall – wagged to do marking and didn’t get it finished
8. Final Thing fairly interesting about what they are doing in primary, early childhood and high school. Thoughts: we need more computers and training and kids should be way more online with us and they are not. I’m getting a clearer idea of how to do collaborative learning in my research units. Need time to set up my wiki. I was a bit overwhelmed by now and could barely stand the wrap up and didn’t get a prize.
Note:
Saved:
A) Tony Ryan for school PD (someone said we were going to have him.
B) Karen Boyes from spectrum education cos she’s coming to teach us Habits of Mind next year. We had a great chat over wine at the drinks thing Tuesday. Decided to go.
Met up with Tony Zaloum from Orewa whom I taught with at Takapuna. Thought I liked the sound of his job. Project director ICTPD and Specialist classroom teacher. He presented The new curriculum and Orewa College and Learning: the future. Didn’t go.
Mapped out fantasy career plan at Glendowie for self when am settled with drama department (5 yr) etc.
Cynthia Sundaram - Sacred Heart College
Reflection on ULearn08
Overall it was interesting and mostly engaging. One of the highlights for me was the keynote speaker, Steven Carden. He was highly inspirational and makes teaching worthwhile and in my opinion, he should have opened the conference.
The first workshop I attended was “Getting tricky with wikis” and this was really good. It was so good, that I was tempted to not turn up to the others and just stay in the conference centre and play with the new knowledge, and drink the free yummy cappuccinos. The other workshops were ok, but I did not appreciate being late for the workshops, when the travelling distance and travelling time between venues, were beyond my control.
The food was fantastic and the Conference dinner was highly entertaining, there were many potential, teachers’ gone wild video clips for youtube.
Anne Rolinson - Aorere College
I was fortunate to attend ULEARN 2008 with Chris Lynch (Social Sciences) and enjoy a range of speaker and Christchurch!
1. I was disappointed in the keynote speakers, who I felt had not ‘moved on’ as far as NZ practitioners had since last ULEARN.
- in short we were reminded that:
we can now form groups as never before
students need help to manage these people networks safely and ethically
the shift from classroom to community has happened
communities of practice provide educators with possibilities for co-creative content – we share what we do ie cooperate, collaborate, act collectively
Speakers from private enterprise, in particular, showed that public speaking is not a natural skill.
Real classroom teachers were superior in speaking ability and practical (of course) ideas.
2. The presentation by Orewa College was honest, detailed and practical, and will be used to devise our own TOD.
Their generosity in sharing practice and power point is acknowledged.
-the ability to include current ideas into ‘New” Curriculum development eg Maanaki Orewa
-the centrality of key competencies over content
-the implementation of HOT across school and curriculum areas and how this might be managed
-change may take 4 years
3. “Untraining the Parrot” – English at Whangaparoa College
-the development of a thinking vocabulary is important – VISUWORDS
4. Tony Ryan “Transformational Teaching” and “Thinking about Thinking”
-always practical and inspirational, although he repetition of material from previous sessions is a worry – each should sound as though it is the first time
Tony has presented/fresh (even though we know he has presented previously in all probability)
-key values for education and practical applications
-roles of transformational teacher
-some perspectives on innovation
-intellectually rigorous digital assessment tasks
-professional coaching
5. -how we think
-big 5 for thinking
-thinking rubric
-focus questions and how to develop them
-thinkers keys
-levels of HOT
6. Joan Dalton
- relationships and education –connectivity and collectivity
-what smart teachers are doing to prepare students for the future – we need to go about the curriculum in a different way
-teachers need to understand about flow, how people learn, uncertainty and adaptiveness
-learning needs to be more authentic – it is intergenerational and intercultural
-students can self instruct –they need to be designers, connectors and collaborators, failures, language masters, licensed eg to think differently, believers, wise
7. Lincoln High School
Relationships are the key to learning
Many of the messages and resources will form the basis of initiatives and PD in 2009 – in many cases rejuvenating ideas eg HOT.